Jerome Bonaparte

Jerome Bonaparte (15 November 1784-24 June 1860) was King of Westphalia from 8 July 1807 to 26 October 1813, as well as serving as a Marshal of France and President of the Senate under his nephew, Napoleon III.

Biography
Jerome Bonaparte was born in Ajaccio, Corsica on 15 November 1784, the younger brother of Joseph, Napoleon, Lucien, Elisa, Louis, Pauline, and Caroline. Jerome lived in the United States for several years, and he had a failed marriage while there. In 1807, his brother Napoleon made him King of Westphalia, and he married Catharina of Wurttemberg, the daughter of Friedrich I of Wurttemberg. Westphalia was a model state in Germany, as it had its own constitution and parliament, differentiating it from the other German states of the time. In 1812, he was granted command of a corps in the Grande Armee, but he was sent home from Russia after an argument with Napoleon, and his only real combat command would be during the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. His kingdom was lost as a result of the end of the Napoleonic Wars, and he lived in Italy for several years. After the French Revolution of 1848, his nephew, Prince-President Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, recognized Jerome as Governor of Les Invalides, and he became the heir presumptive to the throne of the Second French Empire after its establishment in 1852. He died in Vilgenis, Seine-et-Oise in 1860 at the age of 75.